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| He helped bring the Industrial Revolution to the U.S. by bringing plans for cotton spinning machine from Britain and started the first cotton spinning factory in 1790. |
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| A Boston merchant who brought all the stages of cloth making together in one mill. |
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| The idea that all the people should pull together with a sense of strong pride in their country. |
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| Engineer who built the first successful steamboat, the Clermont, in 1807. |
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| Two women who took a stand for women's rights by calling a convention in Seneca Falls. |
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| Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
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| Waterway built to link the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean; used for traveling & shipping goods. |
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| An abolitionist & women's rights leader who escaped from slavery in 1827 |
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| A time when disagreements about national issues grew quiet. |
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| To make goods, like cloth, from raw materials like cotton fiber. |
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| Act that ordered Native Americans of the southern U.S. to move west of the Mississippi River. |
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| A ditch dug through land and filled with water; it is a narrow waterway that usually connects other bodies of water such as rivers, lakes, and seas. |
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| Started an Abolitionist newspaper in Boston in 1831 |
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| A machine invented to clean the seeds out of cotton. |
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| A terrible journey forced upon the Cherokee to move to Indian Territory |
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| A reformer who fought against slavery |
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| A machine that made it easier for farmers to harvest grain. |
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| A time when people began producing goods by machine rather than by hand. |
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| Former slave who was a writer, editor, and leading abolitionist. |
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| Inventor of the Cotton Gin |
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